The sacrifice of Jesus was made once and is effective for ever; the animal sacrifices of the priests must be made over and over again, and even then they are not effective in any real way. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God ( Hebrews 10:6-7 ). If that medicine effects a cure, every time he looks at the bottle thereafter, he will say: "That is what gave me back my health." (c) He may not go because of conceit. The Jews would not have Him living. Of how much worse punishment, do you think, that man will be deemed worthy who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who has failed to regard the blood of the new covenant, with which he was made fit for God's presence, as a sacred thing, and who has insulted the Spirit through whom God's grace comes to us? For ye have need of patience,. Not that they were destitute of the grace of patience; for where God is the God of all grace, he is the God of patience; and such, who are called by grace, are conformed to the image of Christ, and, among other things, are like him in this; and those who are born of the Spirit, have the fruits of the Spirit, and this, among the rest; to whom the word of God is effectual, this fruit is produced in them, that being the word of patience; and such who are brought into the kingdom of Christ, are also in the patience of Jesus; where there is one grace, there is every grace; saints are immediately called to sufferings and trials, which require patience; and, without this, there can be no enjoyment of a man's self: but the meaning is, that they needed the continuance, exercise, and increase of it; in general, to run the race set before them; to bear afflictions from the hand of God, and reproaches and persecutions from men; to wait for God, when he hides his face, and for answers of prayer, when they are deferred; and to bear up, and not to sink under temptations; and to live in the constant expectation of heaven and happiness: and, in particular, it is necessary for the following. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." That is still true. We should lay aside all sinful distrust. Verse 38. Jesus Christ has made the way whereby we can come into the presence of God and fellowship with Him.And so, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,". Eliphaz unwillingly paid Job a great tribute. We have the means prescribed for preventing our apostasy, and promoting our fidelity and perseverance, Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 10:25, c. He mentions several as, 1. So I don't know how we can do any more than we are every night of the week around here and during the day, but anyhow . which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. The consequence is, that many have tried (and I remember making efforts of that kind myself, until convinced that it could not succeed) to give , in the English Bible rightly rendered "the testator," the force of the covenanting victim. It was accomplished in Christ, exalted as the great Melchisedec in heaven. "The worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen" which would not be the case if it was only a dispensation "were not made of things which do appear. Scripture: Hebrews 10:23-25. The writer to the Hebrews quotes it differently and in the second line he has: The explanation is that he was not quoting from the original Hebrew but from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament. Endurance is essential, since there must always be some waiting time before a promise can be fulfilled. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ( Hebrews 10:32 ); Remember what you went through in the beginning of your faith. To what then are we come? Yet it also anticipates what is to come by introducing the triad of Christian virtues, which the writer developed in chapters 11-13 (cf. Once He came they were no longer necessary, no longer necessary to have the shadows, for we now have the substance in Jesus. A man is ill. A bottle of medicine is prescribed for him. May you be blessed of the Lord and strengthened in every good work for the glory of Jesus Christ. All things here are but shadows. (3.) Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." (iii) He stresses the final triumph of Jesus. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 10:36 Context Have done the will of God By keeping the faith, and patiently suffering for it. Added to that there was the daily meat-offering of the High Priest; it consisted of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, and baked in a flat pan; half was offered in the morning and half in the evening. Accordingly observe the change of expression. the book of Hebrews A W Tozer preached these messages as part of a 40 sermon series shortly before his death . It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for the reward till God's time to give it them is come. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." As the crier stepped forth, he said, "Hear ye, hear ye, the decision of the supreme council." Observe, There is a kind of sanctification which persons may partake of and yet fall away: they may be distinguished by common gifts and graces, by an outward profession, by a form of godliness, a course of duties, and a set of privileges, and yet fall away finally. "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. (3.) . THE THREAT AT THE HEART OF THINGS ( Hebrews 10:26-31 ). Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching ( Hebrews 10:25 ). 10:32-39 Remember the former days. And this blessed person, single-handed but according to the will of God, accomplishes that will in offering Himself on the cross. "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. I say not absolutely all its great truths. And to this the Holy Spirit is our witness, for after he has said: "This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, says the Lord. To help their patience, he assures them of the near approach of Christ's coming to deliver and to reward them (Hebrews 10:37; Hebrews 10:37): For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. There is nothing here below so difficult for the natural mind; and for the simple reason that man can never rise above that which is caused. But in our way there are many hindrances and difficulties, which not only delay us, but which would also stop our course altogether, except we had great firmness of mind to pass through them. How is it that anybody ordinarily gets an inheritance? It owns the creation; it recognizes sacrifice as the only righteous means of being accepted with God the only means of approaching Him worthily. Professors may go a great way, and after all draw back; and this drawing back from God is drawing on to perdition: the further we depart from God the nearer we approach to ruin. Best of all we can do that by setting the fine example. It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, Therefore, don't let any man judge you in respect of meat, or drink, or new moons, or holy days or Sabbath days, for these were all a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ.So Christ standing here in this point in history. Let us not abandon our meeting together--as some habitually do--but let us encourage one another, and all the more so as we see the Day approaching. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. He awaits the final subjugation of his enemies; in the end there must come a universe in which he is supreme. Language Tools. V. Having mentioned these means of establishment, the apostle proceeds, in the close of the chapter, to enforce his exhortations to perseverance, and against apostasy, by many very weighty considerations, Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 10:27, c. 1. And what is its distinctive character as here introduced? Observe, [1.] He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. He doesn't have to do it every day. I want to be listed in that hall of fame, those who believe in the promises God. Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. So hold fast this profession of faith. In the volume of the book it is written of Me." There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands, of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? He abolishes the kind of offerings referred to in the first quotation in order to establish the kind of offering referred to in the second. It is easy to laugh at men's ideals, to pour cold water on their enthusiasm, to discourage them. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? And almost all things are according to the law purged with blood; and without shedding, of blood is no remission. The athlete will make his great effort because the goal beckons him on. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. Jeremiah positively declares that God will make a new covenant. It is called the Septuagint. Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, a sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. There is a wholeness about the life of Jesus that perhaps we ought to give more thought. There was a day approaching, a terrible day to the Jewish nation, when their city should be destroyed, and the body of the people rejected of God for rejecting Christ. There is no man who can live the Christian life and neglect the fellowship of the Church. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? To exhort one another, to exhort ourselves and each other, to warn ourselves and one another of the sin and danger of backsliding, to put ourselves and our fellow-christians in mind of our duty, of our failures and corruptions, to watch over one another, and be jealous of ourselves and one another with a godly jealousy. Its greatest peril was from the possible evil living and apostasy of its members. Christians ought to observe the signs of the times, such as God has foretold. The first way to the tree of life is, and has been, long shut up. They must draw near to God. From this the writer to the Hebrews goes on to urge three things. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. (3) The Christians who received this epistle had already endured great hardship and suffering and should not throw all that away by becoming indifferent. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. The happiness of the saints in heaven is substance, something of real weight and worth. "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". The Day is approaching. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. Always there had been voices crying out for God that the only sacrifice was that of obedience. Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. That can't be. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. A high priest over the house of God, even this blessed Jesus, who presides over the church militant, and every member thereof on earth, and over the church triumphant in heaven. Totally forgiven through Him, accepting this new covenant that God has established, your sins are completely put away. But now God sends His final summons, founded on their own ritual, to His people who were hankering after the dead, instead of seeing the Living One on He as it were repeats, "Let the dead bury the dead." A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. Never was there a time when men used terms with a more equivocal design than at the present moment. (3.) Paul writes about the peace one has with God through His grace: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Of how much worse punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant [this new covenant], wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? When the rebellion was subdued, the princess was brought to justice and the court decreed that she should die in the tiger's pit. 6. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. God brings forward His choice, David, when the miserable end of Saul and Jonathan saw the Philistines triumphant, and Israel disheartened as they had scarce been beyond that moment. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. 3. So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. Compare alsoEphesians 2:1-22; Ephesians 2:1-22. "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. I am not aware that it is, nor do I believe that it could be, ever used in such a sense as "covenanting victim," for which some contend. It is very likely that the writer to the Hebrews did not know any Hebrew at all and therefore it is the Septuagint that he uses. - Let us hold fast the confession (, see Hebrews 3:1, and ref. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. He brought to God for men what no man had been able to bring--the perfect obedience, that was the perfect sacrifice. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). "It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.". Brought nigh to God by the blood of Jesus, we have perfect access, so that there is nothing between God and us; for Christ suffered once to bring us to God, as He intercedes that we may have communion. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. 4. But they had to be taken care of before I could have fellowship with God. What is the inference from that? This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. This leads him, from speaking of Esau's case, to add as a known fact, that afterward, when he desired to have inherited the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it carefully with tears. He who has promised is faithful. It is once and for all. Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. It is no longer effective. First, in God's counsels it was always before Him to have One more than man though a man to deal with this greatest of all transactions. For Christ, on whom the promises depend. He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." 32 But # Gal. of God, rather than burnt offerings." This blood, being sprinkled on the conscience, chases away slavish fear, and gives the believer assurance both of his safety and his welcome into the divine presence. This one simple act to hear and or read with your heart the ospel of our Lord Jesus g Christ and 10:11-18 Again, every priest stands every day engaged upon his service; he stands offering the same sacrifices over and over again, and they are sacrifices of such a kind that they can never take away sins. From the methods of divine justice with those who despised Moses's law, that is, sinned presumptuously, despising his authority, his threatenings and his power. They watch as those that shall give an account. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. Ease had ruined them when struggle had only toughened them. Would he give up the one that was the type of the true Seed, the progenitor, and the channel of the promised blessing, yea, of the Blesser? And he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. Rightly then we begin with Zion, and thence may we trace the path of glory up to God Himself, and down to the kingdom here below. His answer is that condemnation must necessarily follow, "and so much the more because thou hast read this book." There is no despair in "hope." "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. The addition of this last clause as a necessary condition confirms the sense assigned. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? Because the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins ( Hebrews 10:2 ). The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins ( Hebrews 10:26 ). For now God came out, so to speak, in His own power and grace, and, in the person of Christ on the cross, put away sin abolished it from before His face, and set the believer absolutely free from it as regards judgment. Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19). What fellowship hath light with darkness? It is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. There, is no ground, in my judgment, for the thought of anything mysterious in the facts as to his person. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. . But what at Zion? Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. 5. Then we hear of the practical use of all. Matthew 1-10 Matthew 11-28 Mark Luke John 1-7 John 8-21 Acts Romans 1, 2 Corinthians Galatians-Ephesians Philippians-Colossians-1, 2 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy-Titus-Philemon Hebrews James-1, 2 Peter 1,2,3 John-Jude Revelation 1-5 Revelation 6-22 . Goal beckons him on we have a good conscience ; in all things according... 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